Volume 18, No. 4, 2021
Ethnic Mosaic In The Select Novels Of Bharathi Mukherjee
P.Vimala rani , Kodaikanal , Dr.K.M.Sumathi
Abstract
New cultures, nations, and races have long been an aspect of American history. As a consequence, the diverse experience of immigration pervades all parts of American society, including writing. In this setting, the boundaries of the American literary tradition have been stretched. The increasing tide of globalisation has reshaped the landscape of modern literature; writing is now transcending national and cultural barriers as newly emerging writers articulate the many perspectives of those long deemed subaltern. A new generation of South Asian female authors has started to make their own stamp on the world of novels, riding the crest of this new literary wave. Bharathi Mukherjee's depiction of the place of an Indian-American lady in New York in the 1970s exposes a central but relatively stable position within the immigrant experience. Bharathi Mukherjee depicts the expectations placed on women as providers of continuity and social cohesion through marriage, motherhood, and their support of the traditional patriarchal family, demonstrating how the very importance of women's roles within the family and community makes it less acceptable, if not impossible, for women to disrupt the patriarchal family, bounds of their own social and psychological environments. In the case of Dimple, her location within the immigrant experience makes her more unique and vulnerable to changes and constraints in family, class, and gender structures.
Pages: 181-185
Keywords: Globalisation, Landscape, Subaltern, Experience.